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Episode 506: Sam Anderson

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Boomtown, the History of Oklahoma City

When I decide to write about a subject, it's my favorite way to be a human on planet Earth. It's like every cell in my body flips to some open position and the whole world is just streaming in. And then when you sit down with it as a writer ... all of that ecstatic inhaling has to stop. For me, there's always this terrible sense of like betrayal of betraying the subject because I understand the full richness of the subject.

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